When right clicing on a horse with something that cannot be used on it, the horse reacts accordingly, but a hand animation still plays when doing so. In line with MC-162036, this should be considerd an unsuccessful interaction and no hand animation should play.
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Right clicking upsets them if you don't use an item they want, so it is intentional that the arm swings, since the action is still taking place